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Comet Crawl

Featured on September 14, 2015

Comet Elenin will creep up the eastern sky before dawn the next few mornings. It should be visible through binoculars not far from bright orange Mars. Wild Internet rumors to the contrary, the comet will miss Earth by about 22 million miles and will have no effect on our planet. Its closest approach comes on Sunday. [Tim Jones]